Thanks to Galya Dimitrova and BBC News Online for the Headline
A ditch full of 8,000 ancient frog bones told the story of how the landscape changed 1,700 years ago and led to the serious predation of frogs who up to then had been protected by the Wetlands and Ancient Forests.
The culprits were mainly Short-Eared Owls who predated the young frogs who were left without the protection of trees due to the land being cleared of trees for grazing livestock.
Scientists could tell by the score marks on the frog bones that they had been eaten by Short-Eared Owls. They estimated that the ditch had taken about one year to fill with the frog bones and that carbon dating showed that the frogs were in their first year of life.
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